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Slightly off topic, but does any-one remember an old Scifi tale set on a semi-terraformed Venus, where a previously associated cabal of investors are trying to get access to VERY valuable, certainly embarrassing data etc in a decades-old vault ?

No keys or dials, the vault design required you to place a highly radio-active Radium source against the sensor box before activation. It had to be Radium, and it had to have a close-tolerance radio-activity level. Time-locking severely restricted attempts. The 'window' on this vault was set tight, and very, very high. The matching source would be hard to get, hard to handle, and extremely valuable in its own right. Of course, it was only 'borrowed' / hired for the occasion...

Turned out to be a total scam, set up to steal that valuable Radium source...

This incident was, IIRC, a side-plot in a long-running revenge tale but I cannot remember more...

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You couldn't make it up...
fair-use quote:https://www.theguardian.com/business...cised-over-lcf
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The bonds on offer from London Capital & Finance looked highly seductive: the interest was a table-topping 6.5% to 8%; they were authorised by the Financial Conduct Authority; and HMRC had granted the bonds tax-free ISA status. Yet, after more than 11,000 investors poured £236m into the bonds – only for the company to collapse earlier this year – the FCA is now accused of its worst failure as a regulator for more than a decade.
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Little of the money went into safe interest-bearing investments. As little as 20% of the money may ever be recovered...
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London Capital & Finance...
Now appears that their brokers were taking 25% commission from investments, so those bonds would have to make all that back before breaking even. And, what a bonus incentive for their sales-team to close deals !!
What could possibly go wrong ??